RFR: 8295146: Clean up native code with newer C/C++ language features [v2]
Andrew Haley
aph at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 14 11:11:27 UTC 2022
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:28:04 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:
> unfortunately, your patch will make backporting more difficult. We cannot downport it to older releases compiled with older compilers. But since it touches a lot of files it will sit smack in the middle of patch sequences, requiring manual merges for patches after it.
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> Is there any benefit to using the new syntax compared to the old one? It does seem similar verbose, so I don't see any benefit there.
I have to agree with Thomas here. Newer is not always better.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11081
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